AC9L1F4U02 Year 3 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 3 Languages provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

recognise and use [Language] language conventions, grammatical structures and syntax, in familiar texts and contexts

Elaborations

• 1 identifying patterns in languages, such as free and fixed word order and tenses in verbs, and making sentences without verbs
• 2 adding a suffix to a verb to describe the number of people doing the action in simple sentences, for example, by creating and completing a table to show suffix variation in a verb in [Language]
• 3 discussing the formation of words, for example, the addition or change of a prefix to convey different meanings
• 4 describing how word classes are treated differently in [Language] and/or other known language(s) including English, for example, the use of number in nouns and pronouns (singular, dual, plural)
• 5 using collective nouns for family members to describe kinship
• 6 noticing similarities between particular vocabulary sets in languages from the same region, such as words for body parts
• 7

  recognising temporal expressions in [Language], for example, expressions for cosmological time and equivalent expressions as appropriate for day-night cycle, lunar and seasonal cycles, before, after, soon, recent and long ago

• 8 applying emerging knowledge of text conventions, using classroom models, for example, determining and highlighting points in written versions of oral texts where commas, full stops and paragraph breaks might be used
• 9 using a range of conjunctions to join groups of sentences together in [Language]

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